Project description
The digital unification of Europe’s natural science assets
The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) represents the largest ever formal agreement between natural history museums, botanical gardens and collection-holding universities in the world. It is a new research infrastructure (RI) for natural science collections and works for the digital unification of all European natural science assets under common curation and access policies and practices. To ensure the data are easily findable, more accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), DiSSCo enables the transformation of a fragmented landscape of the crucial natural science collections into an integrated knowledge base that provides interconnected hard evidence on the natural world. The EU-funded DiSSCo Prepare project will bring together 31 partner organisations to improve the readiness level and deliver the DiSSCo Construction Masterplan. This masterplan will serve as an organisational, financial and technical guiding framework.
Objective
With 115 organisations across 21 European countries, The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) represents today the largest ever formal agreement between organisations of this type, in the world. These organisations have joined forces to develop and operate as a distributed pan-European Research Infrastructure. The DiSSCo RI works for the digital unification of all European natural science assets under common curation and access policies and practices that aim to make the data easily Findable, more Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). DiSSCo will deploy a comprehensive portfolio of services across three main categories: a) e-Science Services, b) Physical and Remote Access Services and c) Support and Training Services.
DiSSCo Prepare acts as the main vehicle through which DiSSCo RI will raise its overall maturity and set itself in a position to implement its construction programme. DiSSCo Prepare aims at 1) improving the overall Implementation Readiness Level (IRL), and 2) delivering the DiSSCo Construction Masterplan.
The DiSSCo IRL is defined as the measure of the ability to embark on specific implementation actions (construction projects) based on clear, actionable guidelines with minimum risk, and across the scientific, data, financial, technological and organisational dimensions of the infrastructure. DiSSCo Prepare will raise the readiness level of the RI across all five dimensions. The DiSSCo Construction Masterplan will be considered as the final output of the project and will effectively be used as the organisational, financial and technical guiding framework for the construction of the infrastructure (including establishing the legal entity).
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CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
2333 CR Leiden
Netherlands
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Participants (33)
1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1165 Kobenhavn
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60325 Frankfurt
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00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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1649 004 Lisboa
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
1200-781 Lisboa
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1349 017 Lisboa
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
1749-016 Lisboa
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
1649-013 Lisboa
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Participation ended
CF24 0DE Cardiff
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EH3 5LR Edinburgh
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51005 Tartu
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1860 Meise
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50121 Florence
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14195 Berlin
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SW7 5BD London
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10115 Berlin
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75005 Paris
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1113 Sofia
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00-927 WARSZAWA
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11579 Praha
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1010 Wien
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28006 Madrid
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1088 Budapest
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845 23 Bratislava
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SE 114 18 Stockholm
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0313 Oslo
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74100 Rethimno
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2450 Luxembourg
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4099-002 Porto
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2100 Copenhagen
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
CF14 7EQ Cardiff
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.